Russia launches earth resources satellite
Russia today successfully launched the last in a five-satellite constellation of satellites focused on mapping Earth resources, its Soyuz-2 rocket lifting off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
The rocket’s core stage and four side boosters fell into frequently-used drop zones in Kazakhstan and Russia.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
134 SpaceX
64 China
17 Russia
14 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 154 to 97, while SpaceX by itself leads the entire world, including American companies, 134 to 117.
Russia today successfully launched the last in a five-satellite constellation of satellites focused on mapping Earth resources, its Soyuz-2 rocket lifting off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
The rocket’s core stage and four side boosters fell into frequently-used drop zones in Kazakhstan and Russia.
The leaders in the 2024 launch race:
134 SpaceX
64 China
17 Russia
14 Rocket Lab
American private enterprise still leads the rest of the world combined in successful launches 154 to 97, while SpaceX by itself leads the entire world, including American companies, 134 to 117.